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- Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location May 25, 2013 · 9 comments
- Blog: Two new senior housing projects getting under way in Lawrence May 24, 2013 · 4 comments
- Opinion: Discrimination more than just poor service May 25, 2013 · 5 comments
- Former area Boy Scouts react to decision allowing gay scouts May 24, 2013 · 20 comments
- Police department's case for a new facility not likely to show on next year's budget, officials say May 25, 2013 · 5 comments
- Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity May 25, 2013 · 7 comments
- Proposed cuts to corrections system could endanger Kansans, secretary says May 24, 2013 · 15 comments
- 59 minors, several local businesses, cited for alcohol violations in state regulator's patrols in May May 23, 2013 · 33 comments
- Opinion: Why gay role models matter May 23, 2013 · 45 comments
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013 · 60 comments
- Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity May 25, 2013
- Graduation and 'stepping up' an all-school event at Bishop Seabury May 24, 2013
- Bill Self: Security tricky subject May 25, 2013
- Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location May 25, 2013
- Wool ballcaps go out with a whimper as baseball flips its lid April 15, 2007
- Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals May 23, 2013
- Wichita might fine residents over use of water May 24, 2013
- Kansas baseball moves to 2-0 in Big 12 tournament May 25, 2013
- Doctor finds 'A Healthier Wei' to treat kids May 14, 2013
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax
What, being poor isn't enough of a burden? Do you seriously believe that the poor have no stake in the community because they pay no taxes? We essentially have a flat tax now - both state and federal. Only two state brackets and 4 federal. And if you are so in favor of a flat tax, then why not raise the cap on the FICA tax to include all income instead of the first $109,000? Isn't that fair?
May 24, 2013 at 8:26 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say
Actually that's now pretty common in other states. In Illinois it's 2%. In Indiana it's zero! Modern cash registers don't have a problem. If anything, zero on food would be a concession to the people the GOP doesn't care about.
May 23, 2013 at 12:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say
Hey, I like having basements, unlike our neighbors.
May 23, 2013 at 9:46 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say
Magic bean (counters).
May 23, 2013 at 8:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Budget provision would block state funding for Common Core standards
Indiana did the same thing, after the local schools have already spend resources to to the preliminary work. I thought it was only the Army that dug ditches and then filled them in. Conservatives waste so much time hunting imaginary bogeymen. We live in a very mobile society. Children seldom finish school in the same school district that they started in. Many move to and from other states. The idea is to have as much as possible a universal model, so that students are learning pretty much the same things at the same grade level. I've sat in on school board meetings when this stuff is discussed (boring!). Hardly political. In many ways it's simply too much micro managing. But then, just like MBA's, what's the point of Ph.D.'s in Education if they don't have something to do? Far better them them than a bunch of legislators.
May 17, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
House Republicans outline new tax plan
For the vast majority of us math is math. If try to cut two types of taxes, you end up in lower revenues in the short term for sure, and most likely also in the long term. But for the GOP that still believes in spontaneous generation, cutting something = more of that something being created.
May 16, 2013 at 9:03 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Brownback: Private GOP tax talks ‘going well’
When Obama did this with Obamacare, had control of the House and temporary control of the Senate, he was accused of ramming legislation down the throats of Americans. When he won't give up on changing the tax rates on upper earners in exchange for entitlement reform, he's accused of an unwillingness to compromise and exhibit bi-partisanship. In Kansas, we don't even bother. All hail, Brownbackistan.
May 14, 2013 at 8:18 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Revenue secretary says tax cuts are working
Can we get any more apples and oranges, here? Last I checked, April is tax filing month. Possibly the increase in receipts is due to people you under withheld for the year and had to pay at the end. Perhaps it just means that more people are working - is that due to Brownback or those policies out of DC? (Or just as likely - independent of both). And these are the "individual" tax receipts - what of the business receipts, and the total revenue taken in? Brownback's tax changes simply now allow pass through of partnership earnings to the individuals. The question is what was lost as a result of the change?
May 6, 2013 at 8:29 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
State officials working overtime to keep up with concealed-carry permits
Mine go back to the Abolitionists, farmed, worked the WPA (and still didn't vote for FDR), and don't feel a need for concealed carry. You miss the point - it's hardly a priority to devote any over time to this task. Any over time and staff should be assigned elsewhere. People can wait.
May 3, 2013 at 11:04 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
State officials working overtime to keep up with concealed-carry permits
How about devoting overtime and staff to shutting down meth labs? Or investigating medical provider Medicaid fraud? Or dozens of other far more pressing things. Again, they aren't taking your guns away. They're just giving you the right to be a bigger yahoo than you already are.
May 3, 2013 at 8:22 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )